Preparing PEAK ProfessionalsUsing Career Services Resources to identify successful routes toward effective

Professional Exploration and greater Knowledge!

“We will take you where you are, and carry you where you want to go!”Dallas Herring

TAKING STEPS ONTO A PATH

Southwestern Community College offers more than 103 credential options in more than 44 programs of study that are designed to suit a wide range of interests. Southwestern is

committed to quality programs that prepare students for employment or transfer to four-year institutions.

Different Pathways & Starting Points

PEAK is Informed by Theory

How students will climb their PEAK

ACA 111A “basecamp” is a starting point! It is where climbers plan and prepare for their climb, gather their resources, evaluate routes, and make decisions.

Transition classes will be a BASECAMP

CAREER COACH: TECHNOLOGY AS A PRIMARY TOOL

Career Coach Reflection

Goal: “Students will learn how to explore careers and inform their career decision-making.” They will

1. Identify and explain their internal personality-based interests, weaknesses, and relevant career interests

2. Identify and rank potential fields of interest

3. Compare potential fields of interest

4. Select one and further research that field

Five Year Plan

Goal: Students should:

1. Strengthen understanding of career pathways leading to success

2. Identify stackable credential within degrees that represent stepping stones to degree and needed in career path

3. Explain activities that lead to and support professional learning and success

4. Analyze and synthesize the academic, professional, and leisure aspects of their lives that integrate and lead to professional success

5. Incorporate self-assessment as key component of goal setting and achievement

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